Why wouldn't you quit and go work for your old team's FO? I just think it's very hard to justify sticking it out with the new team, which you are not at all attached to (or else you'd transform no problem), when your other option is death. If you might have the same problem just quitting, but you don't know for sure that you will, that still seems better than certain death. I could see being able to pull it off in a certain kind of universe, the way The Lobster pulls off "relationships are based on superficial traits and if you don't pair off you must become an animal," but I do think it risks being dark in the way you kind of blink at later, like, "Emotionally it worked but I have no idea why anyone behaved like they did."
Re: Trope talk-Animal Transformation
Why wouldn't you quit and go work for your old team's FO? I just think it's very hard to justify sticking it out with the new team, which you are not at all attached to (or else you'd transform no problem), when your other option is death. If you might have the same problem just quitting, but you don't know for sure that you will, that still seems better than certain death. I could see being able to pull it off in a certain kind of universe, the way The Lobster pulls off "relationships are based on superficial traits and if you don't pair off you must become an animal," but I do think it risks being dark in the way you kind of blink at later, like, "Emotionally it worked but I have no idea why anyone behaved like they did."